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LINQ Demystified : Using LINQ on Existing Data Model

LINQ Demystified : Using LINQ on Existing Data Model

By Sanda Borlea on November 12, 2009

As many other times, I came across this issue having to begin at the wrong end, i.e. having the result and in need of the problem. The samples and recommended procedures offer – as in most cases – only the simplest examples. The workaround is often tedious and in absence of feedback uncertain.

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Add Custom VS Snippets

Add Custom VS Snippets

By Sanda Borlea on October 29, 2009

This note refers to Visual Studio snippets and shows how you can easily add your own. Very useful when having to create many classes with lots of properties such snippets save a lot of time.
They are usually to be found in the Visual Studio folder under My Documents (i.e. for VS 2008 : C:\Documents and [...]

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Generate Objects from Xml Files

Generate Objects from Xml Files

By Sanda Borlea on November 29, 2008

Recently needed some quick method to use objects generated from an existing xml file without bothering to create an xml schema for it. After a few attempts and searching for explanations why a simple task like this wouldn´t work, finally put the steps together:

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Converting rootless XmlReader to XmlDocument in .NET

Converting rootless XmlReader to XmlDocument in .NET

By Armand Niculescu on January 18, 2007

MS SQL has the ability to retrieve data as XML by using the “FOR XML [RAW | AUTO [ELEMENTS] | EXPLICIT]” parameters, which is very useful especially when used in a web service that communicates with a Flash / Flex client as the results don’t have to be converted, but just output to the client.
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